Dave Duffield Co-Founder and CEO Emeritus
About
Dave Duffield is a co-founder and CEO emeritus of Â鶹´«Ã½.
Dave is an accomplished executive and visionary in the business management, public sector, and higher education software industries. Prior to Â鶹´«Ã½, Dave founded PeopleSoft in 1987 and served as the company¡¯s CEO and board chairman. PeopleSoft grew to be the world¡¯s second-largest ERP application software company before being acquired in 2005. Other companies Dave launched include Integral Systems, Business Software, and Information Associates.
Dave received a Master of Business Administration degree and a bachelor¡¯s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and he and his family are the benefactors behind Duffield Hall, a nanoscale science and engineering facility at Cornell. They also support a companion animal welfare foundation, Maddie¡¯s Fund, which devotes its resources to helping create a no-kill nation.
